Archive for the ‘Restaurant Review’ category

With Mother’s Day right around the corner and my ever-growing hunger to find Boston area restaurants I can lay claim to frequenting, I thought it only appropriate that I review Hungry Mother. On several occasions since moving to Charlestown some eight months ago, dinner and a movie has meant a farm-to-table feast at Hungry Mother, […]

Neptune Oyster bar feels more like Brooklyn than Boston. It’s as if someone transported Prime Meats in Williamsburg, brought it to Boston’s North End and substituted steak for seafood. Needless to say, I’m a big fan. Covered in subway tiles with a long bar that spans the length of the restaurant, there’s always a wait […]

The Daily Catch is spot-on. It delivers what it promises (and little else), but the squid ink pasta on their calamari-driven menu is incomparable. Housemade, it’s likely the best these lips have ever tasted. With serious chew, mellow squid ink flavor and thick, slurpy noodles, I get it every time I go…which is often. You […]

It may be the best oyster bar in Boston. It is most certainly the best oyster bar I’ve ever been to, anywhere. The setting is grand and statedly masculine with its swooping ceilings, wood and metal furnishings, a tactile wall constructed of oyster shells, a mammoth, hanging light fixture that feels more work lamp than […]

I hate to say it. I really do, but the Union Oyster House bites! I’m not sure it’s even worth the single star I gave it here; okay, maybe just the one, but only because it’s Boston’s (and thereby America’s) oldest restaurant. It’s super cute from the outside, and my first time peering in with […]